You can find all other History of Thrones entries here. “If I was a religious guy, I’d say it’s a gift from God, but I’m not so I can’t say that. “I suppose I’m a lapsed Catholic.

That phrase, and similar invocations of God in national life, are relatively recent additions to America’s political language. From my perspective as a religious history scholar they reflect a ...

There is much to be said about the history of humankind and the multitude of reasons we have created various religions. Whether to control the masses or to know God more fully, as a human race we ...

Logic and faith were thought of almost as incompatible, and increasingly, religion fell ... a Creator to explain the origin of man and the world, 3) There is proof of God in the Bible (or other ...

The principles that inspired the American Revolution, he argues in “Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American ... humanity, religion and society that got Benedict de Spinoza labeled ...

The need to understand the history of religion in America ... Mather’s longing to be not just a man of God but what would now be called a man of science put him in an interesting position ...

Sister Brenda Cherry entered religious life in 1958 ... and exclusion to answer God’s call for their lives.” Raised Catholic and today a history professor, Williams said that many people ...